Figure skating - Cup of China 2015
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Mao Asada after a season's absence & egrave; back calling the shots in the Grand Prix imposing itself by a wide margin in the short program of the Cup of China.
Friday 6 November 2015 7 minutes reading time
The Japanese ace, dropped on the ice "Capital Indoor Stadium" in Beijing with the 'intention to run the four triple jumps most valuable, has comfortably score the best technical score and assessment more & ugrave; high on each component of the program. At the opening, has completed a decent triple axel, then he presented the 'challenging combination triple flip / triple Rittberger, judged under rotated panel on Rittberger, and finished items with a triple lutz jump placed in the second half & agrave; of the program. Rotations aside, the main problem & egrave; It was represented by the call wire input incorrect triple lutz. For the rest, the 'interpretation of "Bei mir bist du schoen" & egrave; It was superb and has enhanced the best choreography designed dall''ormai trusted Lori Nichol.
The triumph Japanese & egrave; It was completed by the second place by the brilliant Rika Hongo, author of personal best and only athlete in the race to have been awarded the highest level available on steps and spins. The nineteen coached by Hiroshi Nagakubo closed the segment of the race with a gap of close to six points from Asada, but without being able to blame anything. Moreover, the program choreographed by Akiko Suzuki of music from the "Cirque du Soleil" is & egrave; It revealed much more & ugrave; rich by the standards of the past and helped highlight the overall growth gi & agrave; It emerged strongly in the Finlandia Trophy in early October. Hongo was well executed combination triple flip / triple toe loop & nbsp; and then he presented in the second half & agrave; music a triple lutz by wire not outside although it was not sanctioned by the technical panel.
Third place went & egrave; He attested the nineteen American Courtney Hicks, able to cross the threshold of sixty points for the first time in his career, although, by choice, have decided to perform a combination triple flip / double toe loop, instead & egrave; triple flip / triple toe loop. It should be noted overall progress in terms of quality & agrave; rink and on the tops, it being understood that the triple lutz and a double axel, placed in the second part of the test, are the elements that have most impressed.
The best of Russian & egrave; Anna was seventeen Pogorilaya, penalized by a fall on the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, dish of the house, and a wicked entry on top combined. Not & egrave ;, however, it passed unnoticed feedback on program components and a convincing performance of the double axel, something that in the past has more & ugrave; sometimes created headaches. In the end, the 'student of Anna Tsareva you & egrave; had to settle for fourth place with less of a departure from Hicks
The 'waiting elena radionova not & egrave ;, however, went beyond sixth place separated by four points from the podium and also preceded by the owner Zijun Li. The sixteen year old Muscovite, forced to face the trip to China without the support of the historic coach Inna Goncharenko hospitalized, has paid the price of the competition because of unusual difficulty & agrave; elements of jump. In fact, after a landing complex triple lutz, he tried to retrieve the combination, not eseguta where planned, attacking a triple toe loop to a triple Rittberger. The move to the main vacuum & egrave; status for & ograve; represented by the double axel executed only single, and therefore of no value for scoring purposes. Radionova, appeared in any case more & ugrave; Sliding from the past, he has revealed some difficulties & agrave; on top combined skating on balance the worst short program of career in the major category. & nbsp;
Detachment at hand, even the sixteen US Karen Chen remains in contention for the podium despite a disastrous fall on the combination triple lutz / triple toe loop, depleted of value because of the triple toe loop degraded double.
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